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National Youth Summit - Freedom Summer

February 5, 2014

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Civil rights activists, historians, and students participated in a panel discussion about the 1964 youth-led effort to end the political disenfranchisement and educational inequality of African Americans in the Deep South, and discuss the role of young people in shaping America’s past and future. The webcast was hosted from the Old Capitol Museum in Jackson, Mississippi.

Summit speakers:

Dr. Robert Moses, director of the Mississippi Summer Project and founder of the Algebra Project.

The National Youth Summit is presented by the National Museum of American History with Smithsonian Affiliations and PBS's American Experience with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, PBS's American Experience, and the Verizon Foundation.